Posted by alexandra_k on January 27, 2019, at 22:37:12
In reply to Re: clash, posted by alexandra_k on January 27, 2019, at 22:24:11
and the one thing i f*ck*d up that i really really really really really was kicking myself over...
i was asked to do a peer review for a journal and i did it. i thought.
and then he came looking for me and said it was late. this was weeks and weeks later.
and i was like 'i did it in 3 days'
and it turned out that the online form that i did... there was this one final button or whatever that actually submited the whole thing. and somehow i hadn't hit that. and so it had just been sitting on the system unsent.
and so he thought i was rubbish because i couldn't work to time.
but i specifically worked exclusively on it for 3 whole days to get it done in terrific time because i was really grateful for the opportunity to get to do that.
though...
what really went wrong with all of that was i should have asked him for a meeting. and said i had never done anything like that before. could he explain to me what he wanted me to do. and maybe even check what i said.. because i didn't know what was appropriate.
and i think from memory i said 'revise and resubmit' becuase i thought that was what all reviewers would likely say -- and the editor would make their own decision, anyway. whether they agreed with the reviewers comments or thought they were being unfair.
anyway... he was the editor so.
but i should have talked to him.
i should have emailed him 'i have sent that now' -- then he could have said he didn't get it.
i have learned... you need to get confirmation of uptake.
it isn't about when i have submitted something -- it is about when the people say they got what they got from me.
i mean... i have track and trace courier signature and they are being as obstructive as they can be (they probably would take pot shots at me with a bb gun if i tried to submit in person or they probably would have tresspass ordered me off the university campus if they thought i was actually bringing copies of my thesis to be submitted on time)...
but generally.
send an email to x to complain (that is the process).
say clearly in that email 'please can i have confirmation of what process you are following and when i can exect a response' and if i don' tget that... next person.holy sh*t.
i guess they pay them so much because they were only supposed to be temporary.
in the way that 'awwwwww just try again next year!!!'
they were 'this is only supposed to be one year'
the VC... the chief exec of whatever in the district health board. their salaries were supposed to be 1 year for them to sort it out.
but they found pretty much everyone wasn't doing their job. hard to know where to f*ck*ng start.
so they thought... i'll just sit here until someone points out that i'm not doing my job, either.
which could happen at any minute.
i guess that's the idea.
and the incentive is all around...
for the tourists.
for the discovery of the next immunologically elite person whose sample will be the basis for the next techonological breakthrough.
and there we go.
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